Office of the Associate Vice President

for Faculty and Academic Affairs

How to Be Your Own Best Mentor

Carrie L. Byington, MD Associate Vice President for Faculty and Academic Affairs

University of Utah Health Sciences Center

Office of the Associate Vice President

for Faculty and Academic Affairs

Objectives • Discuss actions you can take to mentor

yourself and to develop your career – Know yourself (self-awareness) – Know your environment (situational

awareness) – Learn the art of graceful self promotion – Build your network

Matrix Mentoring Model

Senior Scientific

Staff Peer

Self

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• Support your career success • Advisor

– Help set goals and direction – Promote you to others – Think strategically – Build your network

• Accountability

Duties of a Mentor

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• What are your values? • What do you want out of your career? • What are you willing to give up and what

is non-neogotiable

“If you don’t plan your career someone else will”

Know Yourself

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• Time for reflection – Take a 1 day vacation for yourself at least

once per year • Set annual goals

– Professional – Development – Personal

• Seek training

How?

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• Review goals and milestones from last year

• Reflect on successes and failures to accomplish goals

• Set next years goals • Share your annual review with division

chief/chair/mentor etc. if possible

Annual Review

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Faculty and Staff Development

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How to develop Situational Awareness • Read everything

– Daily Utah Chronicle – FYI/Academic Senate Monthly Report – Annual Reports/Strategic Plans – Dr. Lee’s Blog

• ALIGNMENT is a focus for 2014

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• Attend – Division Meetings – Grand Rounds – Town Halls – Strategic Planning Sessions

• Listen/Ask – Make the most of the hall

How to develop Situational Awareness

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Test your Situational Awareness • Building 521

A. Where is it? B. Is it coming down? C. Is it being remodeled? D. It is part of the 14th most beautiful Medical School campus in the US

Best Medical Degrees Recognition

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Test your Situational Awareness • The Strategic Goals of the University

HealthCare focus on A. Exceptional Patient Experience B. Quality C. Enhancing Diversity D. A and B

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Test your Situational Awareness • The Health Sciences Research Strategy

includes: A. The Utah Genome Project B. The Health System Innovation & Research

Center C. The Center for Clinical & Translational

Science D. Department of Population Science E. The Center for Medical Innovation F. All of the Above

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• The School of Medicine has A. Paid parental leave for men or women

• True or False B. An Education Loan Reduction Program

• True of False

Test your Situational Awareness

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• We may be uncomfortable reporting the good things that we do – Bragging – Gender differences

Graceful Self Promotion

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for Faculty and Academic Affairs

• View talking about yourself or your team as “educating others” not selling yourself or bragging

• Let people know your story – Put the facts together into a story people can

remember • Keep your boss in the information loop • Don’t forget to promote others and they

won’t forget to promote you

Graceful Self Promotion

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• Self-assessment letter for retention, promotion and tenure actions

• Grants – PI justification, budget justification

• Letters of evaluation or support

Important forms of Self Promotion

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• Alignment – How are your activities aligned with the

mission and strategic goals of your unit – Have your activities contributed to the

missions of your division/department/institution

– How are you positioning yourself to be aligned in the future

Strategies

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• Learn to speak and write in active voice

– I completed; I designed; I worked OR – Our team accomplished

• Eliminate weak phrases – I hope to turns into I will

• When someone complements you say Thank you and be quiet

Speaking and Writing Strategies

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Build Your Network

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• People can almost never refuse a request for HELP.

Do Not be Afraid to Ask

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• Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs – Tools for Success – Leadership Development – Targeted Faculty Development – RPT

• Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science • Human Resources • The Eccles Library

Know where to look for Resources

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” Thomas A. Edison

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http://medicine.utah.edu/academic-affairs-faculty-dev/index.php

Office of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development

Utah Center for Clinical and Translational Science

http://medicine.utah.edu/ccts/

Human Resources

https://www.hr.utah.edu